Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 60

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
DIO CASSIUS. Dione Historico delle Guerre & Fatti de Romani. Italian translation by Niccolò Leoniceno. Title within woodcut historiated border with martial motifs; small woodcut portrait of the author and 22 oblong text illustrations. [6], 282 leaves. 4to, 206x146 mm, later 16th-century calf, flat spine gilt with leather lettering pieces, spine ends chipped, cover edges and corners rubbed, lower portion of front cover faded; contents generally clean apart from minor soiling and stains on title and last leaf and scattered cropped marginalia, some headlines shaved; red edges. 19th-century bookplate of the Conte di San Martino Valperga. (Venice: Niccolò d'Aristotile, March), 1533

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first illustrated edition and first in italian, the first vernacular version of the 3rd century Roman history by Dio Cassius. Sander 2436.